Thanks Dianne! That was really helpful. Is it possible for us to re-size a screen and place it at any portion of the screen? Karthik
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > No new resources needed. Again, please see the complete working examples > in ApiDemos. Fwiw, I can't see what the error you are printing has to do > with your code (nor did you include the part where it says the line number > of the error). > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Karthik P <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I tried that too... I get the following error. >> [2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]ERROR: Failed to parse %1$s >> [2009-09-22 12:56:19 - win]AndroidManifest.xml >> >> >> <activity android:name=".win" >> android:label="@string/app_name" >> android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Dialog"> >> >> As I understand these are default themes and it doesnt require any change >> in my resource files. Am I right? >> >> Karthik >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> You need to set the theme in the manifest. The code sample is missing >>> the @ in front of android. There are various examples in ApiDemos of dialog >>> and translucent themed activities. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Karthik P <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I saw the below portion in the documentation, >>>> "By setting the theme of an activity to >>>> android:theme="android:style/Theme.Dialog", your activity will take on the >>>> appearance of a normal dialog, floating on top of whatever was underneath >>>> it. You usually set the theme through the android:theme attribute in your >>>> Android Manifest.xml. The advantage of this over Dialg and AlertDialog is >>>> that Application has a much better managed." >>>> >>>> I tried to follow this but it throwed up an error saying unable to parse >>>> AndroidManifest.xml. I guess you are saying in the similar lines to make it >>>> translucent. >>>> >>>> My AndroidManifest.xml looked like this >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> >>>> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"; >>>> package="com.sample.window" >>>> android:versionCode="1" >>>> android:versionName="1.0"> >>>> <application android:icon="@drawable/icon" >>>> android:label="@string/app_name"> >>>> <activity android:name=".window" >>>> android:label="@string/app_name" >>>> android:theme="android:style/Theme.Dialog"> >>>> <intent-filter> >>>> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> >>>> <category >>>> android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> >>>> </intent-filter> >>>> </activity> >>>> </application> >>>> <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" /> >>>> </manifest> >>>> >>>> then I tried thru the code using >>>> setTheme(android.R.style.Theme_Dialog); >>>> >>>> Above piece of code has built successfully but still I couldnt see any >>>> floating app, the app was occupying full screen. The same experiment I did >>>> with Theme.Translucent as well. Any light on this? >>>> >>>> Karthik >>>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Dianne Hackborn >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> There is no need to use SurfaceView for that, just make your own >>>>> activity transparent such as with Theme.Translucent. >>>>> Anyway, the UI model is designed around having one main fullscreen >>>>> activity visible to the user (any number of non-fullscreen or translucent >>>>> activities can be stacked on top of it). There is no way to have two >>>>> running side-by-side without significant deep cooperation between the two >>>>> apps. >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Rud <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Just speculating but maybe using SurfaceView with a transparent >>>>>> region? The background app might show through the transparent area of >>>>>> the foreground app. >>>>>> >>>>>> Rud >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sep 21, 7:43 am, Karthik P <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> > Does anyone has an idea of how to split the screen into two? Is it >>>>>> possible >>>>>> > for me to run an application in one screen and another app in other >>>>>> screen? >>>>>> > Any help in this regard will be of great help. >>>>>> > Karthik >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Dianne Hackborn >>>>> Android framework engineer >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time >>>>> to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >>>>> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see >>>>> and >>>>> answer them. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dianne Hackborn >>> Android framework engineer >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >>> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >>> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and >>> answer them. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. 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